A forum is not visible to site participants unless at least one topic is created. See Creating a topic or review the Forum Basics video.

See Sending a message (step 3) to all users with a particular role or use the UD P.O. Box. Note that if a student chooses to hide his identity by changing his privacy status, you will not see his name in the To: list, but he will receive your message if you send it to the Student Role.

You could also consider sending a high priority announcement (step 8). This setting will send email to all participants in the site.

Reordering works well using the Firefox browser. If you use Internet Explorer, use the arrows on the left to reorder resources (do not use the numbers, which is problematic).

The default view of the Schedule is by week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can click the Earlier option at the top of the listings or Later option at the bottom to see other times.

See the Sakai Wiki Overview for Tips and Tricks, Wiki markup language, and other Wiki help topics.

There is currently no way to do this using Sakai tools. Ask students to identify themselves within the post itself.

See Deleting Pages in the Wiki tool.

The current limits are: 200 MB per file upload and 1 GB total per site. If you require more space for your site, send an IT Help Request.

Sakai uses site titles to label site tabs. When you create a new course site, the site title is copied from UDSIS, and during the creation process, you can change the site title using up to 99 characters.

After a course site is created, if you edit the site title, you're only allowed 59 characters. If you duplicate a course site, the site title is also limited to 59 characters.

One way of dealing with this is to use a short site title (e.g., 10S: NURS231-011) and to put a longer title on the Home page.

Using the Assignments tool, instructors have two grading options to record and post assignment grades in Sakai.

1. • Add to Gradebook lets you grade each student's work only from the Assignment tool.
2. • Associate with existing Gradebook entry lets you enter grades using either the Assignment or Gradebook tool.

See Linking an assignment to the Gradebook in Sakai@UD Help for a comparison of the two options.

When grading a student's submitted work in Assignments, an instructor can permit the student to resend a revised version.

When the student views the returned assignment, he will have the option of resending a new or edited version.

This typically is a problem when using the Mac Safari browser. See Technical Requirements for a list of supported browsers.

If the file is over 200 MB, students can use UD Dropbox to submit the work directly to the instructor.

In Assignments you must return the assignment to the student in order for him or her to see it.

The default date for an individual student's Allowed Resubmission is the Accept Until date for an Assignment. In an Assignment with multiple resubmissions allowed, if the instructor changes the Accept Until date, the individual students' Allowed Resubmissions dates keep the original Accept Until date. To change an Accept Until date for an Assignment with multiple resubmissions for all students, the instructor can:

1. a. change the Number of resubmissions allowed to 0
2. b. change the Accept Until date
3. c. Post the Assignment
4. d. change the Number of resubmissions allowed to Unlimited or the number you want
5. e. Post the Assignment again

Allowing multiple resubmissions is most useful if the instructor wants the students to be able to send several versions of their work without the instructor having to intervene. With the number of resubmissions set to zero, when the instructor views a student's work he or she can still allow the student to resubmit and set the date to accept that resubmission.

For instructors:

1. • Settings:
   1. Assessment Organization
      1. Question Layout: Each Question is on a separate Web page
         1. Since students must save each answer before going to another question, if there is an interruption in service, when they resume taking the test they are more likely to have their previous answers retained if each question is on a separate page.
   2. Feedback
      1. For graded tests, do not use Immediate Feedback if you are also showing the correct answer.
         1. This setting gives students feedback during the test so they could alter their answers before submitting their work.
2. • Images:
   1. If you are including images in the question, it is best to attach them. To put an image in an answer, make sure that the URL for the image is at a site available to the current students.
3. • Question Pools:
   1. • If you make changes to a question in a question pool and that question is used in an assessment, the changes aren't made to either the pending or published version of the assessment.
      • If you are randomly choosing questions from a pool in which changes have been made, you can edit the part of the pending assessment using the pool, click Save, then publish the assessment.
4. • Zero points:
   1. If a student has not taken an assessment and you want to give zero points, using the Scores option on the published assessment, type -0 in the "Adj" column for the student and click Update.
      
      

For students:

1. • Take care not to click more than once when saving your answer.  Even if the system is slow, doing so could cause further delay.
2. • After clicking "Submit for Grading," wait for the submission screen that includes your Confirmation Number (depending on your connection, it may take several minutes).  If you close your browser before seeing this screen, your test may not be recorded.
3. • Be careful not to have more than one window or tab open to the Sakai quiz.  Doing so may cause your answers to be submitted incorrectly.

An instructor can let a student resubmit his answers to a test. In Tests & Quizzes, click Scores on the published assessment. Then click Submission Status and Allow retake? under the student's name.

Note that after a student retakes a test, if you export the scores for the published test the file produced will contain the results of both submissions. For both the Gradebook and the Tests & Quizzes the latest score is kept.

In Tests & Quizzes, assessments may be set to be graded anonymously. This feature is intended to prevent grading bias based on a grader's past experience with a particular student. This setting can be changed by the instructor in either a Pending or a Published assessment (click Settings then Grading to choose the option that allows student identities to be seen by graders).

No. The connection between a pending assessment and a question pool must be reset if changes are made to the pool:

1. • If you have copied an individual question, delete the question and re-add it to the assessment.
2. • If you randomly draw from a question pool in a part of an assessment, edit the part and click Save.

Remember that questions can only be edited in a pending assessment. If you need to change a question in a published assessment, first remove the published assessment, edit the pending version and republish it.

Using the Assignments tool, instructors have two grading options to record and post assignment grades in Sakai.

1. • Add to Gradebook lets you grade each student's work only from the Assignment tool.
2. • Associate with existing Gradebook entry lets you enter grades using either the Assignment or Gradebook tool.

See Linking an assignment to the Gradebook in Sakai@UD Help for a comparison of the two options.

Currently, the Gradebook does not allow you to assign extra credit, drop the lowest score, or give negative scores. For help in implementing your grading needs, submit a IT Help Request, asking for a Sakai@UD consultation.

Unfortunately, no. This is a frequent request from faculty and we are looking into adding this functionality in the near future.

Values for Gradebook items that are added in Assignments or sent from Tests & Quizzes can only be posted or edited from those tools and cannot be uploaded directly to the Gradebook.

Grades for Assignments that are "associated" with an existing Gradebook item can be uploaded. Care must be taken to make sure the Gradebook item maximum point value matches that of the Assignment.

See Deleting an assessment.

See Making grades available to students. Comments made using the Assignments tool do not appear in the Gradebook.

Instructors can assign letter grades to Assignments but they cannot be sent to the Gradebook. Only numeric values can be added to Gradebook items. In the Gradebook a letter grade can be associated with the course grade. If you want to have the students see any textual feedback you can use the Post'Em tool.

If you added an Assignment to the Gradebook, edit the point value of an Assignment using the Assignments tool.

If you choose "Edit gradebook item settings" from the Gradebook Items list, you will see a message to "Please go to Tests & Quizzes to edit these settings."

If you associated an Assignment with an existing Gradebook Item, you must edit the point value for both the Assignment and the Gradebook Item separately.

See the FAQ above "What is the connection between Assignment and the Gradebook?"